You're out of your mind, Torog. "Hatred and racism" coming from the NAACP? You can kiss my ass.

Lemme pose this to you: Hypothetically, you're black. You and your ancestors have been visciously oppressed for over 400 years by white people. For whatever reason, there are still people flying the flag of a "country" that fought for, among other things, the continued right to own black people. How does that make you feel? Do you like whitey when you see that so many still yearn for a society that makes you property rather than a human being? Be honest with yourself. How would you feel about it?

I know the NAACP isn't racist, that's just stupid. But if they were, shit, I'd understand. If any one group of people has the right to hate another out of hand, it would be black people for white people.

I lived in S.C. when the NAACP decided to boycott the state because of its flying of the Confederate flag over the statehouse. And the argument of "it's heritage, not hate" was spouted off too many times to be counted. What was conveniently left out is the fact that S.C. didn't start flying the Confederate flag until the 1960s when integration began. I'd be willing to bet that that's the case for every Confederate flag being flown today.

Talk about "states' rights" all you want. But no matter how you slice it, that term has always been and will always be an excuse for narrow-minded dipshits to try and justify discrimination.

On another note, I don't get this fascination the South has with the Confederacy, for any reason. When are Southerners going to let the Civil War go? It was 140 years ago. The Confederacy failed. I'm a Southerner, born and raised, and I got over it a long-ass time ago. In fact, I don't think it was ever an issue with me.